Hurry! LOVE is in the air with 20% off everything (excluding items already on sale). For 24 hours only. Sale ends Thursday 15th February midnight.

Use code LOVE20 at checkout. T&C apply.

T&C's: 20% OFF SALE starts Wednesday 14th February and ends Thursday 15th February - 2018 at midnight. Items already marked *on sale* - are not included with the 20% off sale. Use code LOVE20 at checkout. NO returns or exchange on SALE items. Free delivery over $100 is also calculated after discounts are applied, so your order value must be over $100 after you have applied the discount code. Online only at www.makemeiconic.com

Don't forget our iconic candy jars *also* make the sweetest gifts for little ones - and we can't forget about them can we! Full of heart shaped wooden candy and sweet treats that little fingers enjoy playing with. I know many of my girl-friends will be treating their little ones with one of these instead of chocolates. Valentine's Day is getting bigger and bigger so why not share the LOVE at only $90 from our store at www.makemeiconic.com

These HUG ME sequin purses are also a great alternative to chocolate's on Valentine's Day too!!!! So cute and hold lots of little things. Great value at only $20 from our store at www.makemeiconic.com

Although we always try to have the right amount of stock in, we can never predict what we are going to sell-out of. And trust me, we hate selling out just before Christmas just as much as you do! Well the good news is, stock is arriving-in soon and post boxes should be in our warehouse by the end of the week! Yay! So order now if you would like stock sent out to you...

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We love Australia Day as it simply gives us another day to enjoy as a family before the kids go back to school. We try to not to overthink it and plan anything fancy. So we say, take it easy and just do simple stuff on Australia Day this year and we listed a few ideas for you.

Our biggest EVER Birthday SALE starts today with a massive 30% OFF. Prices are marked and you don't need a checkout code this time - we wanted to make your life easy this time! This is our last sale for the year and we won't be doing a Boxing Day Sale. Discount does not include items already on sale or NEW stock that has just arrived in.

We love our iconic tea set and it's ones of our favorite creations. There is soooooooooooooooooooo much fun to be had playing with this tea set and the cute little sugar cubes. Tea parties always lift our mood. We love drinking up a pretend almond chai or a skinny mocha latte. Mmmmmmmm yum ( wish it was the real thing). There once was a time when we didn't order a skinny chai latte or a soy flat white. Coffee or tea was it. We actually prefer a really really really milky tea with lots of sugar or just a regular chai latte. Today's 3-year old Barista's will grow up with all the new cafe lingo.

But it's important to note that all our wood toys are just for pretend play only. They are made of wood and although they are quite solid they are also quite delicate. We thought we might write something here on our blog post about water and wood toys and how in-fact they are not a good combination. We had one customer quite disappointed that when her child used water in their wooden tea set it began to split and the beautiful varnish peel off. And this will happen if you add water to the tea set! I have tested this myself and shown a few images below for you. A good little trick I used to do with my kids was make it clear to them - which are the in-door toys and which are the out-door toys. The ones outside tended to get trashed a bit more and chucked in and out of the cubby house & sand pit, but the ones inside we took more care of which is a great lesson for kids to learn.

All of our packaging says for *Pretend Play* and we have also now added a little warning on the description on our webpage for all wooden toys. Next time we make more tea sets and print more boxes we will also add this to the box packaging for your guys.

We also write on our packaging:

- Paint may fade with natural wear.

- Wipe clean with a damp cloth, do not use detergents (now this does mean wash them in the sink with water! LOL).

and always and of course,

- Children must be supervised at all times as some parts are a potential choking hazard. Take care not to swallow small parts by mistake.

ALL of our toys are toy tested to Australian and NZ toy standards. We even are over cautious and even made our sugar cubes on this tea set bigger than the standard just to make sure they not a choking hazard.

So if you want a tea set that can be used for water play we suggest you use a plastic tea set and not a wooden one. Even a - tin - tea set used with water might rust with time and use. But our iconic tea set is perfect for pretend play and perfect for indoors and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

We LOVE our wooden toys to be worn in. Yes, that's right, your read this correctly. The more scratched, the more dented means the more they have been loved by little hands and hearts. To us it shows LOVE, it shows dedication, it shows it has been played with over and over again. Which must mean its a toy favorite!

I have gathered some pictures showing examples of our iconic post boxes letters from our household. You can see all the edges are scratched, paint is worn-in but its still perfectible usable.The post box letters still do their job. They still get posted. They still get loved. They are just not perfect or brand spanking new. This is the nature of wooden toys, to get worn in a little. So don't be afraid. And besides, we don't like perfection.

Wooden toys are also among the easiest as well as the most enjoyable to repair. There are various methods of fixing them from simple glue to custom building parts.

You gotta remember too that wooden toys are not one single piece of plastic that has been spit out of a factory machine. They are many pieces of wood, carefully put together to hide wooden nails or joints so you have a smooth finish. So that might mean there are some weak points that might actually break off. Of course it totally depends on the child playing with the wooden toy! Some kids are just a bit more heavy handed. I have a had a iconic tram floating around my house for 6 years and all my boys loved playing it until one day a friend (not mentioning names here!) decides to sit on it and ride it in the garden and throw it down the slide and of course a wheel broke off. It was easy to fix.

We don't like putting things in a land-fill either. And somehow wooden toys just last the distance better and stand the test of time! Wooden toys are always the preferred favorite over plastic in our house. Don't get me wrong, we do have plastic toys, they are hard to avoid and we have a little Shopkin's addicted child over here!

Wooden toys may seem a little more expensive at the time but a better investment for us in the end. They just don t seem to date or go our of style and not a trend or a fast fad. I can't tell you how many different phase's my kids have gone through over the years and one things for sure is that they have not lasted, from Pokemon to Fidget Spinners - wooden toys just seem to last the distance in our books.

There is just something a little more traditional and charming about wooden toys that we LOVE. And something that brings us back to our own childhood memories or just simple play. We have even kept a lot of our wooden toys that our boys have played with over the years (ahhhhh they are all grown up now) and put them in attic for save keeping. Exactly as they are, all worn in and played with. And we hope that when our kids are all grown-up and maybe have kids of their own one day; we want to bring out their worn-in iconic tram or iconic post box - and say "here go babes, this was yours when you were young and looked how much you loved it". It will probably have that retro-vintage feel that we all love and bring back memories of the time when they were a kid too...